Adjustable school-desk ink-well holder.



atented 'Apr. I7, I900.

No. 647,84l.

r. n. JONES. ADJUSTABLE SCHOOL OE SK INK WELL HOLDER.

(Application filed 00b. 10, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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FREDERICK DILLVVYN JONES, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

ADJUSTABLE SCHOOL-DESK INK-WELL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patefitfio. 647,841, dated April17, 1900. Application filed ctolaer10,1399. Serial No. 733,213. unmadeTo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK DILLWYN JONES, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and Stateof California, have invented a new and useful Adjustable School-DeskInk- Well Holder, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a superior appliance by whichink-wells can be detachably secured in school-desk tops.

My invention is designed to be applied to desks having various holes forink-wells, so that my appliance can be readily fitted on desks alreadyin use and which have been provided with other forms of ink-wellholders. It is frequently necessary to renew inkwell holders ofschool-desks, and so far as I am aware there has not heretofore beenprovided any ink-Well holder which could be applied indiscriminately todesks of various thicknesses and having variously-sized holes. By myinvention one style of ink-well holder serves for all these variousstyles of desks.

My invention consists in the combination, with a desk, of a top memberto rest on the top of the desk and provided with a depending support toextend into the ink-well hole of the desk-top to receive the ink-welland 3o'an ink-well retainer adjustably attached to the depending supportand provided with spring projections to engage the under face of thedesk-top.

My invention may be 'applied in various forms.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention in its preferred form.

Figure 1 is a vertical mid-sectional view of my improvement as appliedin the desk, a

40 fragment of which is shown. Dotted lines indicate the position ofparts before the retainer is screwed home. Fig. 2 is a plan showing thepreferred form of my invention as applied in a desk-top. Portions of thetopplateand desk are broken away for clearness of illustration.

My newly-invented ink-well holder comprises a top member A, composed ofa plate a to rest upon the top of the desk-top D, and

a screw-threaded collar or ink-well chamber a, open at its lower end, asat 1, and extending downward from the plate to be inserted through theink-well hole cl in the desk-top, a hole a being provided through theplate and opening into the ink-well chamber, and a bottomink-well-holding member B, screwed to the lower end of the collar andprovided with laterally-extending springs 12, bent upward to engage theunder side of the desktop. Any suitable form of cover for the hole a maybe provided.

0 indicates a cover of preferred form.

In practice the plate a will preferably be circular, and its edge willbe bent downward, as at 2, to fit into a circular groove (2, out in thetop of the desk around the hole (Z, thus to prevent the pupils frominserting anything under the edge of the plate to pryit up. The platewill preferably be made of sheet metal stamped in desired form. I preferto use zinc or aluminium.

To apply the holder to a desk the top member will be placed upon the topof the desk and the collar will be inserted through the hole for thatpurpose. Then the ink-well E will be inserted up into the collar and thebottom member 13 screwed to the collar until the springs 12 engage withthe under side of the desk-top with sufiicient force to clamp thedesk-top and hold the 'parts firmly in place. The springs or bottomprojections 19 I) serve a double purpose in that theynot only olanip thedesk-top, but they will yield when screwed home, thus allowing thebottom piece to be screwed up to clamp the ink-well against the topregardless of whether the deslgis of less or greater thickness. adiameter sufficient to amply cover any of the holes ordinarily made indesk-tops for ink-wells, and the springs 19 b are of substantially equalradius therewith, so "that the device can be applied to hold ink-wellsin any of the school-desks now in use.

In the preferred form the plate a will be stamped with downturned edge2, uppressed circular head 3, and pivot-seat 4. The cover 0 is turneddown, as at 5, at the edge and is provided with an uppressed pivot-seatsocket 6 to rest on the pivot-seat, and is also provided with a hole 0and a downpressed marginal rim 7 to rest on the face of the top plate a,so that when the cover 0 is rotated to bring the hole over animperforate portion of the plate a the downturned rims 5 and 7 will Theplate a is fiinbe of practically seal the opening which communicateswith the ink-well. All these minor details, however, may be variedwithout altering my invention.

The pen-hole a is preferably located centrally of the plate and of thecircular bead 3. and sleeve a, and the pivot 8 of the cover is locatedeccentrically of the same, so that the pen-hole is above the center ofthe ink-well.

The projections b on the bottom member further serve as handles, bymeans of which 7 the bottom member can be conveniently screwed home, thehandles thus serving to turn the bottom member and also in connectionwith the upper plate to clamp the desk top.- The upper plate and thehandles are of considerably greater radius than the ink-well support andretainer, so as to bridge holes of any diameter in present use forink-wells in desk-tops. r

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

1. The combination with a desk, of a topf member to rest on the top ofthe desk and pro- I vided with a support to extend into the inkwell holeof the desk-top to receive the inkwell; and an ink-well retaineradjustably attached'to the depending support and provided with springprojections to engage the under I face of the desk-top.

serted through a hole in the desk and open at 7 its lower end; a holebeing provided through the plate and opening into the collar; and abottom member screwed to the lower end of the collar and provided withlaterally-extend ing springs to engage the under side of the 40desk-top.

3. An ink-well holder comprising a plate with a depending screw-threadedsupport to extend into the ink-well hole of a desk-top to receive anink-well; an ink-Well retainer to screw to the support to retain anink-well therein and provided with lateralprojections, being handles toturn the retainer and clamps to clamp a desk-top; said plate and handlesbeing of a radius considerably greater than the ink-we1l retainer,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof 'I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two vsubscribing witnesses, at Los Angeles, California,this 4th day of October, 1899.

FREDERICK DILLWYN JONES.

Witnesses:

JAMES R. TOWNSEND, FRANCIS M. TOWNSEND.

